Desc: The Guru: Directed by James Ivory. With Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt, Madhur Jaffrey. Tom Pickle, Britain's top pop artiste, travels to Bombay, India, in the 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's home, where he gets to meet his wife and several daughters, and the maestro himself.